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For 12,659 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
Lowest review score: 10 Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,399 out of 12659
  2. Mixed: 5,905 out of 12659
  3. Negative: 1,355 out of 12659
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond
    Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond is a disappointing return to the classic series. While its gunplay is satisfying, the moments where it shines are all too brief, stunted by cutscenes that force you to stand in place and spectate a story that rarely includes you or your character. On the other hand, the multiplayer has potential but is in need of more players and some balance tweaks. There are some incredible World War II games that are worth playing even today, but Above and Beyond falls short in far too many ways to be considered among them.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Need for Speed Payback
    Need for Speed Payback's banal racing is only magnified by this focus on grinding. The simple, almost retro, handling model provides occasional bouts of fun, but it's never enough to escape Payback's flaws, with an unwillingness to let you partake in its most hair-raising moments, and a general drabness that seeps into every layer of the game. Fast and Furious, this is not; and that's a disappointing outcome.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Big Bash Boom
    Big Bash Boom's potential is clear. Despite its singular focus making it feel a little barebones when compared to other cricket titles, the shift towards arcade gameplay feels perfectly suited to the relatively flamboyant presentation of the BBL. But it's washed with bugs that affect the core of the experience, and those technical issues make it difficult to warm up to.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut
    Sometimes, simple is better. Maintaining focus on frantic space battles that move quickly and wrap up before you have time to regret what you're playing would have made Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut more energetic and compelling.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Need for Speed Payback
    Despite its impressive visuals and contemporary trappings, Payback's pick-up-and-play driving model harkens back to Need for Speed Underground and its Fast and the Furious-inspired street racing. Yet, unlike the series' heyday, Payback's arcade sensibilities aren't enough to save the game surrounding it from wallowing in mundanity.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Desert Child
    By the end of it you'll realize that there's not much more to Desert Child than what you got in those opening minutes.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Terror Strike
    Speed and crazy difficulty make this Rainbow Six rip-off with a British accent immensely frustrating.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Desert Child
    By the end of it you'll realize that there's not much more to Desert Child than what you got in those opening minutes.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
    This battle between invading extraterrestrials is hardly a fair fight. It's also not a very interesting one.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blacklight: Retribution
    Blacklight: Retribution has its fun moments to balance out the frustrating ones. But with a few unpleasant quirks, some missing features, and a borderline draconian pricing model, it's hardly a must-have shooter for kicking off the new wave of current-gen gaming.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Inazuma Eleven 2: Blizzard
    Inazuma Eleven 2 offers a new story and a couple of gameplay tweaks but is ultimately more of the same.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Star Trek: D-A-C
    Blandly go where no Star Trek game has gone before in this unexciting multiplayer shoot-'em-up.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Desert Child
    Desert Child has a wonderful sense of style, and there are moments when it clicks. When you jet across the water on your bike firing a shotgun blast that shatters several televisions in front of you, or when you first start to wrap your head around the aesthetic of Mars, the game briefly, but brightly, shines. But Desert Child doesn't quite hang together, and by the end of its very brief runtime the things that seemed exciting just an hour prior have lost most of their luster.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Inazuma Eleven 2: Firestorm
    Inazuma Eleven 2 offers a new story and a couple of gameplay tweaks but is ultimately more of the same.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    NBA 07
    NBA 07 on the PlayStation 3 doesn't have the entertaining story mode that the PlayStation 2 version has, but it does have most of that version's flaws, and some new ones, too.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Futurama
    Unless you're a rabid fan who simply has to be in contact with all things Futurama, this game is playable enough to warrant a rental but little else.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Atlantis Evolution
    The gameplay will have you shaking your head in disbelief and disgust as you encounter one badly designed puzzle, maze, or action sequence after another.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Classic NES Series: Bomberman
    A Bomberman game without multiplayer is hardly a Bomberman game at all.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Astro Boy
    Like a one million-horsepower sucker punch to the good feelings we've all suddenly developed toward Astro Boy games, however, the second release, Sonic Team's Astro Boy: No Subtitle, turns out to pretty much stink.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Reign of Fire
    This excitement always quickly fades, leaving you with a game with unresponsive controls and lackluster action.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    World Racing
    It's not a stunningly accurate sim, it doesn't provide the sort of overview of Mercedes-Benz cars that you'd expect, and its graphical presentation has more than a few flaws.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Bode Miller Alpine Skiing
    Even if he had brought home the gold, it wouldn't have changed the fact that his skiing game is a shallow cash-in on athletic idolatry.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Rune: Viking Warlord
    It disregards almost everything about Vikings that make them interesting. Its graphics are some of the worst on the PS2, the gameplay is dull and repetitive, and its uninspired multiplayer mode adds little value.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Tenchu Z
    Ninjas, ninjas, and more ninjas can't save the technically flawed, uninspired Tenchu Z.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    MX World Tour Featuring Jamie Little
    A clunky bargain-bin racer that simply doesn't do enough to keep you engaged, no matter your level of motocross enthusiasm.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Mind Quiz: Your Brain Coach
    Mind Quiz is a shameless rip-off of Nintendo's "Brain Age," only Ubisoft and Sega forgot to clone the variety and occasional fun of that game.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Death Jr. and the Science Fair of Doom
    Imprecise controls, shoddy level design, and bland characters spell doom for Death Jr.'s latest adventure.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Frogger Advance: The Great Quest
    Those looking for the Frogger they grew up with should probably look somewhere else.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Top Gear RPM Tuning
    An obvious attempt to cash in on the street racing craze by providing bargain-basement production values, unlicensed cars, and about as much excitement as a half-lit sparkler.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    WinBack 2: Project Poseidon
    From its bland, generic premise to its one-note gameplay, WinBack 2 does nothing that another third-person shooter hasn't already done better.
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